Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1917 — Northern Jasper Crops Are Looking Good. [ARTICLE]

Northern Jasper Crops Are Looking Good.

The largest acreage ever put out in northern Newton and Jasper counties may 'be seen this year, says the editor of the Brook Reporter. Field after field of new sod has been turned over and the nature of the soil makes the work of gtound cultivation like old ground. Much of this work has been don' this' spring by tractors, and these machines were scattered pretty numerously over the county. Foresman and Rich have a Parrott tractor on their 1,000 aare farm near Roselawn, and Lyons and Rich and Light have a Waterolol Boy on their section near Wheatfield. They also have tractors at the farms near Thayer. Following the -government’s in structions, these gentlemen are putting forth every effort to incerase the feed supply by planting new acreage under cultivation. It has taken an immense outlay of mone - but should crop conditions and prices remain good they will likely reap a rich reward. The editor states that they saw ten fields of wheat in the from Thayer to Wheatfield, where they saw one to the Indianapolis trip last spring.* In fact, wherever they went in the north townships they saw many fields of wheat which were very good ones. The oats are also in fair shape. The dredge on the Kankakee river and the tile will make a regular crop producer and already improvements on farms are equalling those in the south end of the counties.